The University of La Laguna will be represented in the sixth edition of the competition #HiloTesis: your doctoral thesis on social networks for an investigation focused on aboriginal childhood and bioarchaeology in the Canary Islands, the work of the doctoral candidate Selene Rodríguez Caraballo, from the Prehistory area, which has been selected as a finalist for the national phase of this scientific outreach initiative on social networks, which this year, as a novelty, has been developed entirely on Instagram.
This informative thread Linked to the doctoral thesis “The Faces of Childhood: A Bioanthropological Study of the Aboriginal Subadult Population of the Canary Islands,” the project aims to bring the public closer to the living conditions, health, and development of children in the archipelago's aboriginal populations. Rodríguez Caraballo's work will be evaluated by a five-member national jury, at least three of whom will be communication experts, and one will represent the Ignacio Larramendi Foundation.
The judging criteria include expression and content (3 points), creativity (3 points), and the thread's relevance to the competition's objectives (4 points). The winning entry will compete against other threads from various Spanish universities for one of six prizes of 500 euros each, funded by the Ignacio Larramendi Foundation. The winners are expected to be announced in the first half of June.
In this edition, the University of La Laguna had a total of six participants, coordinated through the University of La Laguna's Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit (Cienci@ULL). In addition to the #HiloTesis project focused on aboriginal childhood and bioarchaeology in the Canary Islands, other projects included the exploration of the more extreme objects of our galaxy through gamma rays, by Fernando Frías García-Lago; the coming-of-age story within the autofiction in Senegalese women writers of French expression, by Naomi Casañas Padrón; the challenge of the classrooms of the future, by Ángel López Ramos; the presence of metals in intertidal organisms from Tenerife: ecological implications and food risk assessment, by Indira Delgado Suárez; and the sarcopenia, by Vicente Llinares Arvelo.
The sixth edition of the #HiloTesis competition was open to doctoral students who had defended their doctoral thesis within the last 12 months, as well as those currently working on theirs. Participation involved creating a carousel-style post on Instagram, with a maximum of 20 elements, and using the hashtag #HiloTesis.
The competition is organized by the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities (CRUE), in collaboration with the Network for the Dissemination and Scientific Culture (RedDivulga) of the CRUE-R&D&I sector and the Ignacio Larramendi Foundation. This initiative aims to promote science communication among doctoral students and recent graduates of doctoral programs.
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